NOTICE TO LIBRARIANS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS CONCERNING THE 
SERIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THIS LABORATORY. 
Tlie Hygienic Laboratory was established in New York, at the Marine Hos- 
pital on Staten Island, August, 1887. It was transferred to Washington, with 
quarters in the Butler Building, June 11, 1891, and a new laboratory building, 
located in Washington, was authorized by act of Congress, March 3, 1901. 
The following bulletins [Bulls. Nos. 1-7, 1900 to 1902, Hyg. Lab., U. S. Mar. 
Hosp. Serv., Wash.] have been issued : 
No. 1. — Preliminary note on the viability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. 
Bosenau. 
No. 2. — Formalin disinfection of baggage without apparatus. By M. J. 
Bosenau. 
No. 3.— Sulphur dioxid as' a germicidal agent. By H. D. Geddings. 
No. 4. — Viability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. Bosenau. 
No. 5. — An investigation of a pathogenic microbe (B. typhi murium Danyz) 
applied to the destruction of rats. By M. J. Bosenau. 
No. 6. — Disinfection against mosquitoes with formaldehyde and sulphur 
dioxid. By M. J. Bosenau. 
No. 7. — Laboratory technique : Bing test for indol, by S. B. Grubbs and 
Edward Francis ; Collodium sacs, by S. B. Grubbs and Edward Francis ; Micro- 
photography with simple apparatus, by H. B. Parker. 
By act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, the name of the “ United States 
Marine Hospital Service,” was changed to the “ Public Health and Marine- 
Hospital Service of the United States,” and three new divisions were added to 
the Hygienic Laboratory. 
Since the change of name of the Service the bulletins of the Hygienic Labora- 
tory have been continued in the same numerical order, as follows : 
No. 8. — Laboratory course in pathology and bacteriology. By M. J. Bosenau.. 
(Bevised edition March, 1904.) 
No. 9. — Presence of tetanus in commercial gelatin. By John F. Anderson. 
No. 10. — Beport upon the prevalence and geographic distribution of hook- 
worm disease (uncinariasis or anchylostomiasis) in the United States. By 
Ch. Wardell Stiles. 
No. 11. — An experimental investigation of Trypanosoma lewisi. By Edward 
Francis. 
No. 12. — The bacteriological impurities of vaccine virus; an experimental 
study. By M. J. Bosenau. 
No. 13. — A statistical study of the intestinal parasites of 500 white male 
patients of the United States Government Hospital for the Insane; by Philip 
E. Garrison, Brayton H. Bansom, and Earle C. Stevenson. A parasitic round- 
worm ( Agamomermis culicis n. g., n. sp.) in American mosquitoes ( Culex sol- 
licitans ) ; by Ch. Wardell Stiles. The type species of the cestode genus 
Hymenolep is ; by Ch. Wardell Stiles. 
No. 14. — Spotted fever (tick fever) of the Bocky Mountains; a new disease. 
By John F. Anderson. 
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